- Activist who helped preserve the Watts Tower.
- Was survived by sons, Sam, Julian and Silas; a daughter, Sarah Bjorg; two brothers, Van and Clint; and three grandchildren.
- Instrumental in saving the Watts Towers in the late 1950s. He and William Cartwright purchased the property the towers were on in 1958. The Watts Towers are now a National Historic Monument. They were built by Italian immigrant Simon Rodia, who died in 1965.
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